Good morning. U.S. executives, whether their companies operate solely domestically or also overseas, must stay vigilant against regulatory developments in other parts of the world as this can also impact business. China's Huawei Technologies Co., the world’s largest maker of cellular-tower equipment, is trying to lead development and design decisions for the next generation of mobile networks, dubbed 5G, write the WSJ’s Newley Purnell and Stu Woo.

Huawei is sending large teams of representatives to industry sponsored meetings with design recommendations for how a new system should work. The move comes even as the U.S. government is trying to thwart Huawei's ascent in wireless technology.

Huawei’s representatives are swamping such conferences with design recommendations for how the new system should work, leveraging Huawei’s large research-and-development budget and its growing workforce of skilled engineers, according to the meetings’ attendees and outside analysts. The U.S. and Europe, with the help of Western firms, were the quickest to roll out today’s 3G and 4G mobile networks. Now, industry leaders say China, with Huawei’s leadership, is ahead in the race for their successor.

Walmart in early talks with Humana.Walmart is in preliminary talks to buy insurer Humana Inc., people familiar with the matter told the WSJ, in a deal that would mark a dramatic shift for the retail behemoth and the latest in a recent flurry of big deals in health-care services.

Ford CEO received $16.7M pay for 2017.Ford Motor Co.’s Chief Executive Jim Hackett earned $16.7 million in total compensation during his first year on the job, a challenging period when the auto maker was hit with rising expenses, unexpected recall costs and falling profits at home and abroad.

Under Armour discloses breach. Under Armour Inc. said that some personal details of about 150 million user accounts were accessed in a breach of its food and nutrition app and website MyFitnessPal, Reuters reports.

Retailers say Bangladesh factors aren’t safe enough. Five years after a factory collapse killed 1,100 workers in Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster, organizations representing Western brands say that authorities in the country aren’t ready to go it alone to ensure safety standards are up to scratch.

Development-finance groups widen inquiry into Abraaj funds. The World Bank’s International Finance Corp. and U.K.-based CDC Group PLC are part of a group of investors investigating whether Abraaj Group, a Dubai-based private-equity firm that manages money on their behalf, misused any funds they committed to a $1 billion health-care fund raised in 2016.

With a year to go to Brexit, U.K. economy lags its peers. The U.K. is entering its final year in the European Union set to be the slowest-growing economy among its wealthy peers, with uncertainty expected to blunt the benefits of a global upswing as the country races to hammer out the thorny details of its future.

104 countries block women from certain jobs. In more than half the world’s economies, policy makers have yet to take an obvious step to close the difference between men’s and women’s earnings: allowing women to work the same jobs as men.

Every weekend we select a handful of in-depth articles we think are worth a bit of your time, either because they peel back the layers on a compelling business story, or somehow make us look at business in a different light.

Slack is developing tools to tell if you treat men and women differently. Slack, the popular workplace communication platform, is pioneering products that will provide individual users with data on their digital communication changes when they speak with people of different demographics. Chief Executive Stewart Butterfield says the data will help promote more equal, inclusive workplace cultures and make employees more efficient and effective, reports Quartz.

How Volkswagen walked away from a near-fatal crash. The revelation of a systematic effort to cheat on emissions tests—employees wrote software that made diesel cars appear cleaner than they were—brought Volkswagen to its knees, ended the career of its long-standing chief executive officer, and shattered a 70-year reputation for engineering-led competence. For a time it looked like Volkswagen might not survive, at least not recognizably, a prospect so alarming in Germany that Chancellor Angela Merkel stepped in to do damage control for what is arguably the country’s most important industrial giant.

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